By Emma on Friday, November 30, 2007Filed Under: Tools
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’m sure most of you have already heard about this. I read about it quite awhile ago on another blog (which I would link too, if I could remember which one it was). Camtasia was on my list of [...]
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By Emma on Thursday, November 29, 2007Filed Under: Grammar
Before I began blogging I was listening to podcasts. One that stood out to me was the Grammar Girl Podcast which answers many of those sticky word usage questions, we all have when speaking and writing English. The brains behind the Grammar Girl Podcast and the Quick And Dirty Tips Network is Mignon Fogarty.
Mignon Fogarty [...]
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By Emma on Thursday, November 29, 2007Filed Under: Blogging
According to Wikipedia;
A tag is a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (a picture, a geographic map, a blog entry, a video clip etc.), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification and search of information.
According to Jill Whalen from HighRankings.com title tags are keywords in your title. [...]
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By Emma on Thursday, November 29, 2007Filed Under: Words To Know Archive
Some of you may be familiar with my New Word Monday Page. In order to have a more flexible blog schedule, my New Word Monday is now Words To Know. It will still be full of notable words that aren’t commonly used, and I will still have the comment contests. I will just have more [...]
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By Emma on Wednesday, November 28, 2007Filed Under: Words To Know Archive
Pièce de résistance - The most noteworthy or prized feature. A special item or attaction.
au contraire - French for on the contrary. On the opposite or adverse side.
bouleversement - \bool-vair-suh-MAWN\, noun:
Complete overthrow; a reversal; a turning upside down.
obstreperous \uhb-STREP-uhr-uhs; ob-\, adjective:
1. Noisily and stubbornly defiant; unruly.
2. Noisy, clamorous, or boisterous.
Cosmopolitan - Being open to [...]
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By Emma on Tuesday, November 20, 2007Filed Under: Messages From Me
It’s just a couple of days before Thanksgiving, and besides having 4 days off. I also have a huge family weekend planned, with lot’s of food, games and activities. So I just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope everyone enjoys the holiday weekend.
For those of you who are in other parts [...]
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By Emma on Monday, November 19, 2007Filed Under: Grammar
I found this game for learning and practicing grammer. I’ll link to it, instead of embedding it, because it has background music, that plays without being clicked on. If you want to learn and practice grammer, check out Grammar Ninja.
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By Emma on Thursday, November 15, 2007Filed Under: Blogging
I’ve always liked those sites that have inspirational quotes on them. I found the above quote on Famous Quotes Of The Day, author unknown. Here are some additional posts about quotes for bloggers:
Quotes For Bloggers
Ten Quotes For Bloggers About Blogging
Article By Lorelle On Random Quote Plugins
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By Emma on Thursday, November 15, 2007Filed Under: Blogging
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.” -Henry Ford
While researching the traits of a winning attitude, the best article I could find was a free directory listing. I don’t really want to start dealing with duplicate content issues, so instead of re-posting it. I [...]
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By Emma on Tuesday, November 13, 2007Filed Under: Comedy
Since my page rank debacle, I have no choice but to lighten the mood and not take all of this too seriously. So I am adding a new Comedy category to my site, just to lighten the mood and make things more interesting.
One of the things I like about the web, is the [...]
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